Learn more about the thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in e-learning have enabled people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning technology institutions are considering now that online learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of these MOOCs is all right? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Northern Mariana Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Trainers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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